Measured entry

hextaui-dialog

dialogminimal-flatmotion on file

A client-side React dialog composed from Radix Dialog primitives and shipped as a shadcn registry TSX file. It includes the portal, overlay, content, close control, header, footer, title, and description. Styling relies on Tailwind utility classes, project theme tokens, animation utilities, a cn helper, and Lucide for the close icon.

Specimen
Motion capture of the mounted demo, recorded by the harness. No audio track.
Harness screenshot of hextaui-dialog at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of hextaui-dialog at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of hextaui-dialog at 1440 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 1440 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.

Measured

Every value below was written by the harness on the run that produced the frames above. None of it is derived from the prose.

Harness measurements recorded for hextaui-dialog
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowclean at 375, 768, 1440
Axe critical0
Axe serious0
Axe moderate0
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal43.7 KB (109.2 KB build, 65.5 KB baseline)
Bare modeFAIL
Provider requiredNO
Demo usedwritten from the component source API

What the harness recorded

BARE BUILD

✗ Build failed in 747ms
error during build:
[vite]: Rollup failed to resolve import "lucide-react" from "<sandbox>re-0b6cdbc93602/src/cut/components/ui/dialog.tsx".

Verdict

A sound, conventional Radix wrapper that builds and mounts cleanly, with sensible composition and accessible labeling primitives. Choose it when its Tailwind and theme conventions fit your app; otherwise the styling adaptation may outweigh the thin wrapper's value.

Use it if

  • You want a composable modal with focus and dismissal behavior delegated to Radix.
  • Your app already uses Tailwind utilities and can map the referenced theme tokens.
  • You need separate primitives for triggers, content, headings, descriptions, and action rows.

Skip it if

  • You want a dependency-free modal or do not want Radix in the client bundle.
  • Your styling system cannot consume Tailwind classes or the component's theme-token conventions.
  • You need a fully styled form dialog with validation and submission behavior included.

Install

Installation record for hextaui-dialog
Declared dependencies@radix-ui/react-dialog, clsx, tailwind-merge
Missing on installnone
Bare installfails once the shadcn-style helpers are removed, so it needs that setup
Providerno provider required in the harness

In a non-shadcn project, add Radix Dialog and Lucide React, provide a cn class-merging helper backed by clsx and tailwind-merge, and configure Tailwind theme tokens plus the referenced state animation utilities. Preserve the client-component boundary where your framework requires it.

Source and credit

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License
MIT
Record published
2026-08-16

Alternatives

Other published entries for the dialog pattern, ordered by what they measured: mounts first, then clean axe scans, then bare-mode passes, then the smaller bundle.